Simon Fraser University's Cedar HPC Cluster Case Study

Simon Fraser University's Cedar HPC Cluster Makes a Large Impact in British Columbia

Simon Fraser University's Cedar HPC Cluster Makes a Large Impact in British Columbia

In 2016, SFU was selected by Compute Canada, the national organization for advanced research computing (ARC), to house a new national HPC system in its data center. That was the first step that led to the design of a 902-node, 1.3 petaFLOPS HPC cluster—what would become the most powerful ARC cluster in the country at its launch. The new system is designed with Xeon processors for compute notes, ...and GPU nodes all connected by Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA).